In Re Lehigh Mining & Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
No number. The Lehigh Mining and Manufacturing Company, alleging itself to be “ a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, and a citizen and resident of the said State of Pennsylvania,” brought its action of ejectment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia against J. J. Kelly,. Jr., and others, tenants and lessees of Kelly, to recover the land described in the declaration.
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No number. The Lehigh Mining and Manufacturing Company, alleging itself to be “ a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, and a citizen and resident of the said State of Pennsylvania,” brought its action of ejectment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia against J. J. Kelly,. Jr., and others, tenants and lessees of Kelly, to recover the land described in the declaration. The defence pleaded not guilty, and also filed two pleas to the jurisdiction of the court. These pleas averred that for ten years prior to the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
In Maynard v. Hecht, 151 U. S. 324, we held that in the instance of an appeal or writ of error from a Circuit Court upon the question of jurisdiction under the fifth section of the Judiciary Act of March 3, 1891, a certificate by the Circuit Court presenting such question for determination was required in order to invoke the exercise by this court of its appellate jurisdiction. The first of the six classes of cases described in that section in which a writ of error or appeal could be taken or brought directly to this court from the Circuit Courts was : “ In any case in which the jurisdiction…
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